Zibaldone, the 14th Century’s Answer to Tumblr (2016) • Hacker News Board

Re: Zibaldone, the 14th Century’s Answer to Tumblr (2016)

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Post by jaclaz » Sat, Aug 03, 2019, 5:49 PM UTC

Tomte wrote: post #9

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #8

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Thanks! The problem though is that if I post frequently, it would be very useful to know that what I am posting is a repost. Do you think this is a feature that could be implemented?

If the URL is the same, no new submission is created, but you're redirected to the former submission (and that gets an upvote, I think). Every now and then you also get "This story has been previously submitted". No idea when exactly, but it seems to be a newer development. This is not foolproof, of course, many articles are reachable from many URLs, especially if some social media tracking thing is embedded.

I would add that nowadays a number of URL's have some parts "variable" at the end and so searching for "your" URL might not give results (but a previous submission with the same "main" URL but a different suffix does exist nonetheless).

Re: Zibaldone, the 14th Century’s Answer to Tumblr (2016)

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Post by dang » Sat, Aug 03, 2019, 7:15 PM UTC

lelf wrote: post #6

dang wrote: post #2

Discussed at the time (in 2016, not the 14th century): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12405810

Interestingly it’s “the 13th Century” there (and in the url). Probably atlasobscura silently changed(/fixed?) it: https://web.archive.org/web/20160830171522/https://www.atlas... vs https://web.archive.org/web/20160901120029/https://www.atlas...

I noticed that too. I'm glad they care about getting their centuries straight.

Re: Zibaldone, the 14th Century’s Answer to Tumblr (2016)

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Post by dang » Sun, Aug 04, 2019, 1:32 AM UTC

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #8

dang wrote: post #4

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Yes, it's in the FAQ: If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Thanks! The problem though is that if I post frequently, it would be very useful to know that what I am posting is a repost. Do you think this is a feature that could be implemented?

We could match on exact URL but that would only catch some of the reposts. After that, it gets hard very quickly. It's best to got to HN search and plug in some keywords to see if the topic has had major attention before. You can use "comments>N" to get threads that had at least N comments, and similarly "points>N".

Re: Zibaldone, the 14th Century’s Answer to Tumblr (2016)

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Post by simonebrunozzi » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 5:06 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #13

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! The problem though is that if I post frequently, it would be very useful to know that what I am posting is a repost. Do you think this is a feature that could be implemented?

We could match on exact URL but that would only catch some of the reposts. After that, it gets hard very quickly. It's best to got to HN search and plug in some keywords to see if the topic has had major attention before. You can use "comments>N" to get threads that had at least N comments, and similarly "points>N".

> You can use "comments>N" to get threads that had at least N comments, and similarly "points>N".

This is super useful. Thanks!